Month: June 2020

News & Politics Travel

BMW X6 With Illuminated Grille Review

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BMW is all set to launch its big, bold and brawny SUV called the BMW X6. It is the new third-generation of BMW and it is far ahead than its predecessor. It will impress everyone with its features, performance, build and interiors.

Style and features

It is an absolute beast the company has to offer. This specific model is wider with a longer wheelbase than its predecessor but it is a tad shorter. The front grille of the car is its highlight as it is the first-ever illuminated grille from BMW. But it is available only for X6 model right now.

Presently the illuminated-grille is offered as an extra option that you can buy to impress your friends and neighbours. You will certainly love driving the car with an illuminated-grille. It will light as you turn the headlights of your car on or you can use it for the time when locking and unlocking the vehicle.

Most good-looking car

Of all the generations BMW has to offer, this one is the most good-looking. It looks very stylish especially at the back. The tail light treatment of this car of the X6 matches with the arrangement seen on other sports models of BMW.

Engine power

In India, the BMW X6 is offered with a 3-litre, in-line 6-cylinder petrol engine. It can be argued that the engine isn’t as powerful as the V8 on the M50i but the X6 engine also produces amazing power. It is very agile and can reach up to 100 kmph in 5.5 seconds.

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Today's Special

World Blood Donor Day 2020 Says Safe Blood Saves Life

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Every year June 14 is observed as the World Blood Donor Day but this year, it is going to be very special because COVId-19 has made voluntary blood donation a difficult task. It has added one more screening test for the blood.

The World Blood Donor Day 2020

The theme for this year is “safe blood saves life” and health experts and patient advocacy groups have come together to promote blood donation and stressed on the safety aspect of blood donation especially when it has become scarce amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Harsh Vardhan appealed for blood donation

Union Health Minister appealed to voluntary organizations, NGOs and people at large to come forward and donate blood so that the country has ample stock of blood to meet any eventuality. According to WHO, there were 11.6 million unpaid blood donations from 2008 to 2015. It said that 78 countries collected over 90% of their blood supply from voluntary unpaid blood donors. And 58 countries got supplies from family/replacement or paid donors.

Shortage of blood in India

Professor K. Srinath Reddy, the president of Public Health Foundation of India, and a member of the ICMR COVID-19 taskforce said that blood banks across the country were facing shortages of blood components and stressed the need for at least one good blood bank in each district of India.

Mr. Mukherjee further said that blood donated by voluntary donors was considered safer than those donated by paid donors. He also said that the experts were expecting more safe blood.

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Education

Maharashtra State Education Department Released SOP For Schools During COVID-19 Pandemic

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The state education department of Mumbai ordered discontinuation of online classes for students of Class 2, set a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for schools to conduct online classes for the academic year 2020-21. The regulation on the online classes will come into effect from June 15 after getting chief minister’s approval.

SOP for online classes

The education department has fixed number of hours for online study and numbers are fixed according to classes. Students of Class 3-5 could be held online for an hour; Class 6-8 for two hours and Class 9-12 for a maximum of three-hours a day. Also, the schools must ensure that the students get relaxing break between the online classes.

Phased opening of schools

The department also suggested phased opening of the schools. It said that schools can be opened in a phased manner, when no cases of COVID-19 are reported. Schools can resume their classes from July but they should start with Classes 9, 10 and 12. It can be followed with Classes 6 and 8 from August. And if the things go well, classes for students of Class 1-5 could be started from September. But the final decision about opening of schools is left with the local administration.

Experts prepared the SOP

The Standard Operating Procedure was made after detailed discussions with experts including school heads, academicians, social workers and others. The state education minister Vikas Gaikwad said that their idea was to bring uniformity in the way online education was conducted.

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Sports

La Liga Starts Today With Mallorca VS Barcelona In Spain

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The wait for the greatest of all football clubs in the world is finally over. It has been three-months since Barcelona played its last match. On June 13, 2020, Barcelona will meet Mallorca in Spain to start remaining series of La Liga.

Last season of La Liga

The season one was left with 11 matches to play for Barcelona and Mallorca. Barca was ahead of Real Madrid in the first place and Mallorca was at the 18th position. And both the teams are desperately looking for a win but it is Barcelona that has to win this match.

The game will become serious as the tournament reaches the final 10 or 11 games. Barca has come on the top after Madrid lost to Real Betis but Barcelona can’t afford to lose to Cristian Tello. It is time when Barca needs to show its full strength as there are no worries about Champions League until the La Liga season concludes. No excuses will be accepted for the loss.

Advantage Barcelona

Luis Suarez is back from injury and Lionel Messi looks eager to score goals. But there will be no audiences, supporters or fans in the stadium hence Barcelona won’t say that they have to play away from the home ground. They have to play like never before and entertain their fans across the globe.

Prediction

It has been three months since the last match was played hence it is difficult to predict the right outcome of today’s match. But most fans would bet on Barcelona that has greater chances of scoring maximum goals.

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News & Politics Today's Special

Importance Of The World Day Against Child Labour 2020

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International Labour Organization (ILO) has marked June 12 to observe the World Day Against Child Labour and it is observed in almost 100 countries around the globe.

History of the World Day Against Child Labour

It started in 2002 when the International Labour Organization suggested that June 12 be observed as the World Day Against Child Labour. And it put facts in support of its suggestion. It said that many children in the age group of 5 to 17 were engaged in work that deprived them of normal childhood like getting education, proper healthcare and leisure time.

Significance of the World Day Against Child Labour

The World Day Against Child Labour is observed with the sole purpose of bringing the plight of child labour before the world and encourage the authorities responsible for safety of children to find ways to remove children from the clutches of labour. The message that goes to the society is to save childhood from the physical and mental problems of child labour.

Theme for the World Day Against Child Labour 2020

This year the focus is on to highlight the impact of the crisis on child labour. The world is passing through a very difficult phase that is a pandemic. Today the world economy is under extreme stress. It is on the verge of collapsing. And this crisis can push millions of children worldwide into labour. The children are at a greater risk of bearing the burden of society. And it is for the society to think of ways to save their childhood.

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Carry Minati Celebrates His 21st Birthday Today

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YouTube celebrity Carry Minati turns 21 today. Born on June 21, Ajay Nagar is the proud owner of the most subscribed YouTube channel CarryMinati. “So how are you guys” is the tagline of his channel.

Meet Ajay Nagar

The 21-year old YouTuber hails from Faridabad in the Delhi NCR region. He did his initial schooling from Delhi Public School (DPS) but he was more inclined to creative than traditional studies. Ajay launched his first YouTube channel at the age of 10-11. It was StealThFearzz but it didn’t receive expected response from the targeted audiences. He used to post different videos in this channel.

Journey to become a YouTuber

Presently, he is a solo YouTuber with highest number of subscribers (21.7 million+) in the country. Also, his video Yalgaar is also the most liked (10 million+) video on YouTube. But the biggest thing for Ajay Nagar is the TikTok vs YouTube controversy that shot his Carry Minati channel to success in a short time.

TikTok vs YouTube

The controversy proved to be a boon for Ajay Nagar who had 10.5 million subscribers. Carry Minati posted a video about TikTok vs YouTube and this video became an instant hit crossing all the limits. YouTube also removed that video citing its community guidelines … Read the rest

Technology

The Best 5 Laptops For Working From Home

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Work for home has many advantages. It saves time, money and energy in the long run. But you need a professional system to carry out your office work from home. For example, you need a high-speed broadband connection, printer and a professional laptop.

Here’re 5 best laptops you can buy to work from home

  • Acer Swift 3 (Rs. 59,999)

It is a 14-inch notebook with a full-HD display panel. And it packs an AMD Ryzen 4000 series processor that is paired with 16GB of RAM and 512GB PCIe Gen3 NVMe SSD storage.

  1. HP 14s (2020) (Rs. 44,999)

It is for those that like Intel. It has the 10th-generation Intel Core i3 or Core i5 processor. Also, it has 14-inch full-HD IPS display, 1 TB SATA HDD and 256GB PCIe NVMe M.2 SSD storage options.

  1. Asus VivoBook 14 (Rs. 35,990)

Budget oriented customers can consider this notebook as it provides both quality and affordability. The laptop comes with a 14-inch full-HD anti-glare display and it is powered by an Intel Core i3 processor.

  1. Apple McBook Air (Rs. 65,990)

This McBook is for those that feel more comfortable with macOS but don’t want to spend more. It is an affordable McBook with 13.3-inch Retina display and Intel Core i5 processor.

  1. MSI Modern 14 (Rs. 54,990)

It is Windows machine and it comes with a 14-inch full-HD IPS display and up to 10th generation Intel Core i7 processor. Also, it has a backlit keyboard and a 50Wh battery that can power the machine for 10 hours.

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Education

Expect MSBSHSE Results In The First Week Of July

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Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education (MSBSHSE) is preparing to announce results for Class 10th and 12th examinations held in February-March this year. While MSBSHSE is yet to announce a date for result declaration, but students can expect the result in the first week of July.

MSBSHSE result

Every year, MSBSHSE declares results in May and June but this year is different because the nationwide lockdown has delayed evaluation process. It started only after lockdown, when teachers were allowed to take copies to their homes for evaluation. Maharashtra is the hardest hit state in India. It has the largest number of coronavirus cases in the country.

MSBSHSE cancelled exams

The board had to cancel the Geography Exam and Work Experience of Class 10th. Also, the second semester exams of Class 9th and 10th were also cancelled by Maharashtra School Education Minister Varsha Gaikwad due to the spread of coronavirus infection in the state.

MSBSHSE last year results

Last year 77.10% students passed the Class 10th exam. 90.52% of girl students passed the exam while the percentage of boys who passed the exam was 78.18%.

In Class 12th, 85.88% students passed the exam and here girl students also did better than the boys. The pass percentage of girl students was 90.25% while that of the boys was 82.40%.

MSBSHSE online result

Students can check their results on the official website of the board. Also, they can look for other websites that will publish results of MSBSHSE.

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Top Celebrities Beauty & Health

Alaya Furniturewalla Attempts A Difficult Yoga Pose For Three Minutes

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Actress Alaya Furniturewalla has been taking a keen interest in yoga ever since the nationwide lockdown is imposed. Also, she shares her yoga videos on her Instagram account. Recently she shared a video of her going a difficult yoga asana but at the same time, advised her viewers to be careful while trying yoga.

Alaya Furniturewalla yoga posture video

She shared an interesting video but with a disclaimer that her video shouldn’t be treated as a tutorial as it was the first time that she attempted the yoga. Alaya captioned her video that it was just 3 minutes of struggling to do the things in the right manner.

The first part of video contains all the hard work Alaya did to imitate the yoga posture. She had multiple failures but she continued and finally succeeded in doing the posture in the right manner. She wrote that she had never practiced yoga in her life but yoga became her favourite activity in the lockdown period. She spent her lockdown time in searching yoga videos and trying different postures.

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IPL Sports

Ex-West Indies Skipper Darren Sammy Faced Racism During IPL

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Ex-West Indies skipper Darren Sammy posted an emotional video of him being called by a “derogatory” word used for black-people during his stint with Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise Sunrisers Hyderabad.

Darren Sammy experienced racial abuse in India

The good memories of former West Indies skipper turned into disappointment when he understood meaning of the word his IPL counterparts used to call him in the dressing room. At that time, he thought that the word would matching with his personality but little did he know that it was a derogatory word. And the West Indies cricketer recalls how his teammates were used to laugh after calling him with that “derogatory” word.

Darren Sammy revealed his displeasure

He said that he was listening to Hasan Minhaj when he came to know about that “derogatory” word and recalled that he was also called with that word. It is when he understood that laughter followed with the word was to insult him.

Darren Sammy said in his video that he would text to all his IPL teammates to ask them whether they meant the real meaning the of that word or was that just a friendly joke. … Read the rest